There's two ways to react negativly to a game when it comes to story and it probably needs to be reworked if you say any of the following while playing;"Stop interrupting my gameplay with story!"or"Stop interrupting my story with gameplay!"I had actually shoutet the second part while playing Lost Odyssey and it sounds like Yakuza 4 suffers from "Stop interrupting my gameplay with story!".

Either way, due to the eathquate and reactor issues, Escapist probably wanted to lessen the chance of Yahtzee rustling any feathers.

OT: The review of this game actually confused me a bit. I haven't played any of the Yakuza games, so I was under the impression that the game's focus was to handle things as realistically as possible (or y'know, about as realistic as a game about gang members can get), but from the sound of this review, Yakuza 4 is a little wacky.

Also, the reaction noise stuff kinda gets on my nerves too. But you know what's even worse? When the characters repeat what someone just said but in the form of a question. If I were an ignorant boob that just judges Japan's culture from what I've seen in anime, I would think that everyone there is hard of hearing.

I seriosly was not expecting Yahtzee to review Yakuza 4. He was pretty much spot-on how the game goes, but I was surprised he didnt mention the pants-on-head retarded things the protagonists do at times in this game. Example: You defeat big bad, then turn you gun on him but then decide youre better than this and throw it WITHIN 3 meters of the embittered baddie who is close to mental breakdown, and to whom you recently gave a lengthy Reason You Suck-speech. Darwinism really has no credibility with these people walking the earth.

orangecharger:Bwahahahaa -- nice opening loved it! "Japanese are into some crazy shit!" right after a heartfelt balanced statement over the recent tragedy -- ah Yahtzee you cheeky bastard -- Another good quote "sumptuous fruit basket for your fist" -- Milk. Nose. Mess. I wasn't going to buy this game anyways - having watched the earlier Escapist review -- but now I am definitely not. I don't want to read the bottom of my tv for the sake of "realism". Realism where I am a kung fu god single handling kicking the ass off of everyone as long as I am in the right place to do it. Pshhhfft. Meh.

It's not about "realism" as few if any video games are truly realistic, it's about authenticity. When a game takes place in Japan it's only logical that the people actually speak Japanese.

This may be the first time that I really didn't understand his full impression of the game. Yeah, the combat is awesome and the story is a bit convoluted, but I don't really get what he thinks of the full package.

Okay. There are at least two things about that statement that are problematic. First, it's too general. It insinuates that all Japanese people are "into some weird shit" or in other words they all have the same tastes. That's quite frankly getting borderline racist.

And second it's worth noting that there is probably a decent chance that many people in Japan think similar things about people who live in other countries, if you catch my drift.

Gotta say, if there's one thing in this life that makes less sense to me than paying somebody to have sex with you, it's paying somebody to not have sex with you. Unless they're twice your size, have brass knuckles and a raging case of herpes, I'll just try to avoid them and buy a nice sandwich instead.

Okay. There are at least two things about that statement that are problematic. First, it's too general. It insinuates that all Japanese people are "into some weird shit" or in other words they all have the same tastes. That's quite frankly getting borderline racist.

And second it's worth noting that there is probably a decent chance that many people in Japan think similar things about people who live in other countries, if you catch my drift.

Okay, but why is that of all the far east Japan is the most that stands out. No North Korea is not bizarre, Kim Jong-il is.

Okay. There are at least two things about that statement that are problematic. First, it's too general. It insinuates that all Japanese people are "into some weird shit" or in other words they all have the same tastes. That's quite frankly getting borderline racist.

And second it's worth noting that there is probably a decent chance that many people in Japan think similar things about people who live in other countries, if you catch my drift.

My mistake, i meant some...

Although certain sections on certain numbered websites, specially one being the 4th letter of the alphabet is troublesome